The Editor

Canvas Navigation

The canvas is your A4 workspace — 595 × 842px at 100% zoom. You can zoom in for precise bubble placement or zoom out to see the full page. Panning lets you move around at any zoom level.

Zooming

There are three ways to zoom:

  • Mouse wheel / trackpad scroll — zoom in and out centered on the mouse cursor. The canvas scales around your pointer position, so what you're looking at stays in view.
  • Zoom buttons — the + and − buttons in the bottom toolbar zoom in fixed steps.
  • Reset — the 100% button in the bottom toolbar resets to 100% zoom and re-centers the page.

Zoom range is approximately 30% to 300%. At very low zoom you can see the full page; at high zoom you can precisely position individual bubbles or read fine text details.

Panning

When zoomed in, pan the canvas by:

  • Middle-mouse drag — hold the middle mouse button and drag
  • Alt + drag — hold Alt (Option on Mac) and drag with the left mouse button

When you're in stamp mode (placing a bubble, ribbon, or FX element), the cursor changes to a crosshair. When panning is active, it changes to a grab cursor.

Page coordinates

The canvas always represents the A4 page at its fixed dimensions (595 × 842px). Zoom only affects how it appears on screen — your overlays (bubbles, text, etc.) are always stored in page coordinates, not screen coordinates. This means a bubble placed at position (200, 300) is always at that position regardless of zoom level when exported.

Keyboard shortcuts

  • Escape — cancel the current stamp mode (stop placing bubbles/FX/text), or deselect the currently selected overlay
  • Delete / Backspace — delete the currently selected overlay (bubble, ribbon, FX, or text box)
  • Ctrl+B / Cmd+B — bold (when editing a text overlay)
  • Ctrl+I / Cmd+I — italic (when editing a text overlay)
  • Tab — indent (when editing a text overlay)

Cursor modes

The cursor changes to indicate the current interaction mode:

  • Default arrow — nothing selected, normal mode
  • Crosshair — stamp mode active; click to place an element
  • Grab / grabbing — panning the canvas
  • Move / resize handles — dragging or resizing a selected overlay
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